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No. 609,394. Patented Aug.` I6, |898. l T. A. REMSEN.

C'AR FENDER.

(Application filed Dec. 15, 1897.) N o M o d e I l W/TNESS Y @Wm @AMM 4 rra/Mfr IINITEE STATES PATENT ERICE.

TIMOTHY A. REMsEN, OE NEw YORK, N. Y., AssIc-NOR To HENRYM. LEE,

OE sAME PLACE, AND MARY E. REMsEN.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,394, dated August 16, 1898. Application iiled December 15,1897. Serial No. 661,938. (No model.)`

T @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY A. REMsEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, (Brooklyn) in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Car-Fender, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relatesv to a novel fender for electric tramway-cars; and it consists of the construction, combination, and arrangement of the operatin g parts of the device, as hereinafter more fully described in the specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

The object of my present invention is to provide an automatic fender of extremely simple and inexpensive construction that may be readily attached to any electric tramwaycar Without having to make numerous changes in the brake and mechanism now covering the entire bottom of the car, Ait being an improvem ent on my Letters Patent ofthe United States for fenders, No. 586,270.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents so much of a street-car in side elevation as will suffice to illustrate the application of my invention in its extended position.

Fig. 2 is a similar View of my invention, on av larger scale than Fig. l, with the car removed. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section on the opposite side of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: represents a view of my invention in its extended position, showingit down on the track. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent details of parts.

l Similar letters ofV reference indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the platform of an ordinary car, on the under side of which and parallel to the sides thereof are two bars ct d and held at either end to the bottom of the car by suitable braces a2 d3 and to each end of the side bars c a are arms A2, having sockets A3 on their ends to receive the pins A4 A5 on the supporting-frame A6, to the ends of which is pivotally supported the wire frame B at'the sides thereof by means of a plate A7, said supporting-frame A pivotally suspending the rectangular frame B by means of an eye-plate D, through which plate the crossbar passes, said cross-bar being engaged by the suspension-hooks D D on the rear of the Wire frame B.

The letter B designates a rectangular frame,

of iron pipe, and consists of a front portion ZI and sides b b, having hooks II H formed about one-fourth the distance from their inner ends to engage the lugs C on each side of the wire frame B and pivotally connected at their inner ends to the cross-bar F by means of the intermediate crank E, the cross-bar AF being pivotally :fitted in the supporting-frame A6.

Near the end of the cross-bar F is connected a handle G, by means of which the motorman may operate the fender by releasing the same.

On the cross-bar F are curved slotted plates S, Figs. 5 and 6, near each end thereof, as at c c, to more positively and rmly engage the hooks D D, suspended from the inner side of the Wire frame B, and which hooks D D are automatically disengaged from the crossbar F when an` obstructionstrikes the forward part of the frameB and throws the frame back, thereby turning the cross-bar and releasing the hooks D Dll from the slotted curved plates S on the cross-bar F, or the hooks D DIl may be disengaged from the curved plates S on the cross-bar by the motorman operating the handle G.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure f by Letter Patent, is-

1. In a car-fender the combination of the rigid supporting-frame, a revolving cross-bar attached thereto with portions thereof provided with curved slotted plates to engage suspension-hooks on the rear portion of the wire frame whichare automatically released when the frame B is thrown back, substantially as shown and described. Y

2. In a car-fender the combination of the rigid supporting-frame attached to the carbody,having a cross-rod attached thereto with portions thereof provided with curved slotted plates to engage suspension-hooks on the rearl portion of the wire frame, a wire frame pivotally suspended in the supporting-frame, an

extension-frame having hooks on each side thereof to engage lugs on the wire frame, a lever connected to the cross-bar by means of a crank to operate the device from the dashboard of the car, substantially as shown. and described.

TIMOTHY A. REMSEN.

Witnesses:

CRAs. A. HAYILAND, FRANCIS C. BOWEN.

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